Heddle for loom-harness.



P. A. WAGNER.

HEDDLE FOR LOOM HARNESS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 12, 1911. RENEWED MAR. 4, 1914.

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PAUL .A. WAGNER, or CARL-smote, NEW. JERSEY.

2121mm son Loom-HARNESS.

Specification of Lcttersratent.

Patented Oct. (3, 1914.

Application filed June 12, 1911, Serial No. 832.700. Renewed March 4, 1914. Serial No. 822,478.

To all whomit may concern:

Be it known that I, Pam. A. WAoNsn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Carlsladt, in the county of Bergen and btate of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in l'leddlcs for Loom-Harness, of which the tollowmg is a specification.

The invention relates to the heddle-eye or mail and means for en aging the latter with the heddle, and the ob ect of the invention is to provide a mail of metal which may be easily and economically manufactured and secured to the loops or legs of the heddles, and in which projecting points or angles are avoided, and which slmll be tint and thin, occupy but little space, and tend to lie in the same plane with the hcddle-loops.

The invention consists in certain novel features and details of eonstructimi and arrangement by which the above ohiects are attained, to be hereinafter descriied and pointed out in the claims.

The accom nmying drawiir s form a part of this s )ecilication and sliow preferred forms of tile invention.

Figure 1 is a face view of a mail formed by flattening a complete annulus of metal, the eye being produced by machine; out a portion of the metal of the body. 1 1g. 2 is an edge view of the same. Fig. 3 is a corresponding longitudinal central section. Fig. 4 is a transverse section taken on the line -l-l in Fig. 1. Fig. i") shows a face view of a mail formed as in Fig. 1 by flattening a complete annulus but with the warp-eye produced by bending the body members from each other. Fig. (3 is an edge view of the same. Fig. 7 is a correspomling longitudinal central section. Fig. 8 is a trans verse section taken on the line 8--8 in Fig. 5. Fi l) is a face view of a mail similar to that shown in Fi l but formed by folding a. strip of metal instead of by flattening an annulus. Fig. 10 is a corresponding longitudinal central section.

The size is for clcarness of illustration greatly enlarged in-all the forms shown.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures.

Referring to Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive, the mail comprises an endlessring or annulus, such as results from shearing oil a short length from a thin tube, flattened to produce a body portion formed by the two members A, B, connected at the ends by the'hights C. l), in which the loops forming the legs F, G, of the heddle are received and held by pinching the metal strongly thereupon. The mail thus formed is preferably tapered slightl toward the bight-s O, 1), and a warpeye H 15 produced by punching an elongated perforation through both members A and B, as shown. The mail previous to its attachment to the heddle threads is agitated for a suitable period with its follows in a tumbling-barrel or analo ous device to remove the sharp angles and any roughnesses and when subse p1entlv attached to the legs F, (,l, and pine ied tiereon, presents no angles or PlOjQCtlOXlS likely to interfere with its movements relatively to the adjacent mails aml heddles.

la the form shown in Figs. to 8 inclusive, the annulus is of the same width throughout, and the members A B are separated or bent laterally from each other, but in the direction of the plane of the surfaces, to form an eye 11. The legs F G are held in the bights C D as before. In this form it is preferable to pass the warp-thread outside the member A, through the eye El and outside the member ll, as shown in Figs. 5 and 8, to lessen the danger of the thread engaging in the angle at each end of the eye.

l igs. t) and show a form similar to that lirst deserilwd but formed by bending a strip instead of using the complete annulus. It comprises a single member A having its ends it pointed and folded upon the memher A to produce bights (J l) in which the legs F l of the heddle are held as before. 'lne eye H is punched as in the first-described form. lerforations a a are provided in which the pointed ends 15 are sunk, and the body portion of the member A" is slightly bent or oll'set at u. a. to aid further in preventing interference between the pointed ends of adjacent mails.

It will be noted that in all the forms the plane of the mail coincides with the planes of the heddle loops so that when the harness is engaged with the laths, not shown, the mails will receive the warp-threiuls with but little twistini, or distortion of the legs, and consequent y may stand very closely together with a corresponding saving of space.

The metal used is extremely thin; the enill) tire thickness of the completed mail is but little if any greater than that of the thread composing the heddle.

I claim 1. In a heddle, a mail comprising a metal body folded upon itself to form at each end a transverse night with an integral intermediate body portion having an opening for the reception of a Warp-thread, and a heddle-loop received in and held by each of said bights with a portion thereof lying transversely of the length of said body, said body, opening and loops lying in the same plane.

2. In a heodle, a mail comprising an annulus flattened upon itself to produce a body-portion and a bight at each end thereof, said body having an opening for the reception of a Warp-thread, and a heddle-loop received in and held by each of said bights.

A mail comprising an annulus flattened upon itself to provide a body-portion, and a bight at each end thereof, said body having an opening therein for the reception of a Warp-thread, and said tights adapted to receive and hold heddle-loops.

4. A mail comprising an annulus flattened upon itself to provide a body-portion of tWo parallel adjacent members and a bight at each end thereof joining said members, said body having a Warp-eye therein formed by perforating both said members and said bights adapted to receive and hold heddleloops.

In testimony that I claim the invention above set forth I affix my signature, in presence of two Witnesses.

PAUL A. XVAGNER.

Witnesses CHARLES R. SEARLE, HELEN V. RICE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washing ton, D. G. 

